Re: Is this standard, or Visual C++ bug ?

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Kr=FCgler?= <daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:43:30 CST
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On 12 Mai, 00:41, rolkA <samy.ro...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok so consider this code :

namespace Bar
{
        template <class T2>
        T2 f()
        {
                return T2(0);
        }
}

template <class T>
void Foo(float y = Bar::f<float>())
{
}

int main()
{
        Foo<int>(); // C2783: 'T2 Bar::f(void)' : could not deduce template
argument for 'T2'
        return 0;
}

It does not compile with Visual C++ 2005 and 2008, but G++ has no
problem with it.


This is clearly a compiler error in VS2005/VS2008.
In your example, there is nothing left to be deduced
for function template Bar::f, because all template
parameters are provided. I only can assume that the
compiler "thinks" here, that you attempt to deduce
Foo's template parameter via default arguments (which
is not allowed), but this is just a guess.

But now, if I remove the template from Foo, it works :

namespace Bar
{
        template <class T2>
        T2 f()
        {
                return T2(0);
        }

};

void Foo(float y = Bar::f<float>())
{
}

int main()
{
        Foo<int>(); // no problem


This should be diagnosed, I assume you meant

           Foo();

here.

        return 0;
}

And if f is not in a namespace, it works too :

template <class T2>
T2 f()
{
        return T2(0);
}

template <class T>
void Foo(float y = f<float>())
{
}

int main()
{
        Foo<int>(); // no problem
        return 0;
}

Any idea ? Thank you.


I suggest that you send a bug report to MS, presenting
the first example code.

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr?gler

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